Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Japan. Show all posts

Thursday, August 09, 2018

2304

Kristjaan ask that we listen and be inspired to write
This song is actually an Okinawan Folk Song which is known as Min'yo always depicting either sadness, loss of loved ones, loss of hope, grievances, or finding new hope.


you are far away
Mt Fuji yet your presence -
a song on my lips

© gillena cox 2018


This one is Japanese court music, also a kind of folk music, but for the high society so to speak


lofty notes -
ladies in the palace wear
their best kimonos
© gillena cox 2018


Blog hopping today with

Carpe Diem
#1493 Okinawa ... the music of Southern Japan

AND

Carpe Diem
#1494 Gagaku, the traditional music of the Japanese Court


Revisit
9 August 2017
9 August 2016
9 August 2015

Tuesday, May 02, 2017

2090

[background image from yahoo dot com]

the well digger
comes out into the floating world—
the heat!
cherrys loosen petals to
kiss the cheek of passersby


Blog hopping with

Carpe Diem
Tan Renga Challenge Month 2017 #2 "the well digger"

the well digger
comes out into the floating world—
the heat!..............................Yokoi Yayū(1702-1783)
cherrys loosen petals to
kiss the cheek of passersby............gillena cox


Revisit
2 May 2011
2 May 2015

Friday, October 02, 2015

1764

image courtesy Carpe Diem


such cold winds swirling -
the steady hand of archers
let fly their arrows

© gillena cox 2015


Written for the prompt at Carpe Diem #831 Ohmato Taikai (Festival of the Great Target)




Wednesday, January 21, 2015

1582


image used for this haiga courtesy CARPE DIEM HAIKU KAI


Pheasant's Eye
greet me on a card someday -
welcome good fortune

❧✿❧

black eyed peas
speckle the rice, good fortune
taps the new year
© gillena cox 2015


In the Caribbean, we cook black eyed peas at New Years for good luck


Revisit
nengjayou
last minute shoppers
New Year foods



Inspired by the prompt at
Carpe Diem #652, Pheasant's Eye (Fukujusoo)



ôyuki o kabutte tatsu ya fukuju kusa
covered by the big snow
yet they stand...
New Year's grasses
© Issa


asahi sasu rooshi ga ie ya fukujusoo
morning sunshine
on the old Zen teacher's home -
Pheasant's eye in bloom
© Buson


jimen kara sora ga hajimaru fujukusoo
from the earth
the sky begins ...
Pheasant's eye
© Miyasaka Shizuo (1937 - )


hi no ataru mado no shooshi ya fukujusoo
the sun shines bright
on the window panes ...
Pheasant's eye
© Matsui Kafuu (1879 - 1959)


Pheasant's Eye reflects
looks at it's beauty in the mirror -
she arranges her corsage
© Chèvrefeuille

...

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Imaginary Garden With Real Toads

Saturday, March 16, 2013

1140


Its Renku Saturday 32; visit Renku Saturday 31

the leafless crepe jasmin
green tipped buds all over

--gillena cox

even for the tongue-tied
crow of the east...
spring's first dawn
-Issa, 1812

Saturday, March 02, 2013

1128


Its Renku Saturday #31
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To tangle
or untangle the willow
it’s up to the wind
-- Chiyo-Ni (1703-1775)
(trans. Donegan & Isibashi)


language of the breeze
wind chimes this morning

--gillena cox


breeze whispers
a long ago Love
Love that never hurt me

--Lorraine Renaud, CA

Saturday, September 22, 2012

1016

Renku Saturday 28


at this time
morning glories fix the color
deep blue

Masaoka Shiki (1867 – 1902)


the plumbagos
even their stems
blue

--gillena cox,TT


blue moon
hydrangeas blushing
midnight pink

-- Alegria Imperial,BC


in blue dreamland
under her cotton sheets -
lazy morning

--Patrick Fetu,FR


Deep blue
I am

--Lorraine,CA


I want to steal the word “blue”
into every poem...
Blue is an attitude
--Colleen Redman,US
read the whole poem here


midnight blue . . .
staring at
a blank page
-- Bill,US


blue handblown glass
his hand shapes a corn flower
with no prompting

-- Adelaide,US



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Wednesday, September 19, 2012

1014

Shiki (October 14, 1867 – September 19, 1902) may be credited with salvaging traditional short-form Japanese poetry and carving out a niche for it in the modern Meiji Period. While he advocated reform of haiku, this reform was based on the idea that haiku was a legitimate literary genre. He argued that haiku should be judged by the same yardstick that is used when measuring the value of other forms of literature–something that was contrary to views held by prior poets. Shiki firmly placed haiku in the category of literature, and this was unique.
Some modern haiku are typified by deviating from the traditional use of 5-7-5 sound pattern and dispensing with the kigo ("season word"); Shiki's haiku reform advocated neither break with tradition...
image and text from Wikipedia



松杉や枯野の中の不動堂
matsu sugi ya kareno no naka no Fudōdō

pines and cedars -
in the withered fields
the Hall of Fudo
--Masaoka Shiki at Takahata Fudo Hall

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Saturday, August 18, 2012

Renku Saturday 26

sunlit memories
i remember the hymn
that you crooned
while pollinating my
garden full of aster

--Linda Ashok, India


in heat shimmers
paper fan spread wide
he sleeps

--Issa, 1815


at the tips of branches
hot pink bougainvillea

--gillena cox


You're lost
follow my scent
I have to leave

Lorraine


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Saturday, June 16, 2012

Renku Saturday 23


--opening hagia from Gheorghe Postelnicu , Romania;


the war lord
has pull...
chrysanthemum contest
--Issa, 1817


a white butterfly
skips along oblivious -
the rumbling truck
--gillena cox


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Sunday, June 10, 2012

Sunday Savvy 29


Sunday savvy -
bright sky hosts no day moon
a gentle rain

--gillena cox

Today is the first rainy season Sunday here in T&T; if Corpus Christ Thursday was considered the start of the rainy season.
I came across some witty weather writings at coldal web pages weather lore
Here are a few that made me smile:


Rain on Easter Sunday, it will rain the next 7 Sundays.
Fog goes a hoppin', rain comes a droppin'
Fog in January makes a wet Spring
Feb fog means a frost in May
Ash Wednesday wind continues in Lent
Cold is the night, when stars shine bright.
If smoke goes up - clear, smoke comes down - moisture on the way.
--Carol Saseen

*

The last Sunday in the month indicates
the weather of the next month.

When circle around the moon t'will rain
-- Amber

*

Infallible signs of Rainy Weather, from the Observations of divers Animals!

If Ducks or Drakes their Wings do flutter high
Or tender Colts upon their Backs do lie,
If Sheep do bleat, or play, or skip about,
Or Swine hide Straw by bearing on their Snout,
If Oxen lick themselves against the Hair,
Or grazing Kine to feed apace appear,
If Cattle bellow, grazine from below,
Or if Dogs Entrails rumble to and fro,
If Doves or Pigeons in the Evening come
Later than usual to their Dove-House Home,
If Crows and Daws do oft themselves be-wet,
Or Ants and Pismires Home a-pace do get,
If in the dust Hens do their Pinions shake,
Or by their flocking a great Number make,
If Swallows fly upon the Water low,
Or Wood-Lice seem in Armies for to go,
If Flies or Gnats, or Fleas infest and bite,
Or sting more than they're wont by Day or Night,
If Toads hie Home, or Frogs do croak amain,
Or Peacocks cry
Soon after look for Rain!

*

Dirty days hath September
April June and November
From January up to May
The rain it raineth every day
All the rest have thirty-one
Without a blessed gleam of sun
And if any of them had two-and-thirty
They'd be just as wet and twice as dirty.

*
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Cultivated green tea fields, Numazu, New Tomei expressway service stop

the Pacific
the breeze of green tea
Sunday drive

--Taro Kunugi
tag 1 ...Rambles with a Camera - Sunday 10th June 2012

tag2...Flow And Stuff - Sunday 10th June2012

tag 3...Crafty Green Poet - Sunday 10 June 2012

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Saturday, May 26, 2012

Renku Saturday 22

--opening haiga by Gheorghe Postelnicu , Romania

evening moon -
in a slow stream of traffic
workers return home

--gillena cox

Evening
i sleep with the
moon

--Lorraine

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Thursday, April 26, 2012

A Poem In Your Pocket 2012


image from google used for this haiga
Join the celebration at Lunch break; Poem In Your Pocket 2012; COMMENT or email me a poem i'll post it today. Poems remain the copyright of individual writers


also left hanging
in the pine
the farmer's paper fan
-- Issa 1823

April showers -
a soggy kite held erstwhile
in tree branches
--gillena cox


monday morning walk...
sun bathes the lake in warm light
cormorants smile
turtles rest on floating logs
and leaves leisurely float by
--Pat Geyer, US

beautiful blond boy
posed in his communion suit
ever in my heart.
rosary, bow, cross and smile
old photo of my father.
--Pat Geyer, US


the asphalt
covered with cherry petals;
tracks of my car
--Taro Kunugi, JP




image share from Ralf Bröker,

walking the Royal Mile
with eyes
on my now
--Ralf Bröker, DE

cherry blossoms
fall from my scrapbook
he loved me then
--Pris Campbell, US


first light
another bird voice
joins the choir
--Cara Holman, US


early morning breeze
a hummingbird flies
into my dream
--Stevie Strang, US


lingering dream
of tears and loss...
awakening to rain
--Dianne Borsenik, US


--haiga by Robert Johnston, NZ



gypsy girl -
the golden tooth shines
as she smiles
--Gurwinder Singh Sidhu(a sharing from Surmeet Maavi, IN)



rain soothes parched desert
plants thrive umbrellas open
cactus flowers bloom
--Michelle Angelini, US



a halo
of budding leaves
the old oak tree
--Michael Baribeau, US



an icy wind
sweeps across the mountain top...
a sentinel rainbow
--Keith Simmonds, TT



Butterfly Effect
dare to fly
brave wings
seize each moment
the destiny of the world
awaits your
your timing
--Reason A. Poteet,US



Poetry by Pablo Neruda
And it was at that age ... Poetry arrived
in search of me. I don't know, I don't know where
it came from, from winter or a river.
I don't know how or when,
no, they were not voices, they were not
words, nor silence,
but from a street I was summoned,
frm the branches of night,
abruptly from others,
among violent fires
or returning alone,
there I was without a face
and it touched me.
I did not know what to say, my mouth
had no way
with names,
my eyes were blind,
and something started in my soul,
fever or forgotten wings,
and I made my own way,
deciphering
that fire,
and I wrote the firts faint line,
faint, without substance, pure
nonsense,
pure wisdom
of someone who knows nothing,
and suddenly I saw
the heavens
unfastened
and open,
planets,
palpitating plantations,
shadow perforated,
riddled
with arrows, fire and flowers,
the winding night, the universe.

And I, infitesimal being,
drunk with the great starry
void,
likeness, image of
mystery,
for myself a pure part of the abyss,
I wheeled with the stars,
my heart broke loose on the wind.
(Translated from the Spanish by Alastair Reid)


2010's celebration can be seen here

'Poem In Your Pocket'- history here
THANKS TO ALL POETS FOR TODAY'S COLLABORATION
much love
gillena

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Saturday, April 21, 2012

Renku Saturday 21

image from google

Hanagoromo / nuguya matuwaru / himo iroiro.
Unfastening the cords / Around my spring kimono / One by one

--Hisajo Sugita...This haiku appears in the essay 'Haiku: The Heart of Japan in 17 Syllables' read the essay


yesterday's rain
the mountains
more verdant today

--gillena cox


on The Spirit of Haiku..."Composing a haiku means giving a voice to the “other” appearing before our eyes and taking a slice of Earth’s life. By so doing, we ourselves tap into the cosmic source of life and create a synchronicity and fraternity with other living beings. This is also a process of self-discovery, a journey to the depths of one’s own hearts. It is through the “other” that we discover things about ourselves. Basho used the phrase karo tosen to describe haiku. Karo means a brazier (stove) in the summer, and tosen is a fan in the winter. In other words, haiku may serve no practical use in our present reality but are nonetheless of great importance. People do not need haiku to live, nor will haiku fill hungry stomachs. But to lead a richer life, haiku—as well as other forms of culture and art—can be of paramount importance."
also from ' the essay Haiku: The Heart of Japan in 17 Syllables'

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Saturday, April 14, 2012

Renku Saturday 20



rhythm of daylight
bird songs through
a leafy tree

-gillena cox 2012


a good world! good world!
country swallows
and town swallows

-Issa, 1815

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Sunday, March 11, 2012

Sunday Savvy 19



Today marks a year since the terrible tsunami which devastated Fukushima in Japan;

how so unlike
the cherry blossoms which fall
much to the delight
of millions of onlookers
conscious of their span

--gillena cox


Japan must rebuild dozens of ravaged coastal communities, shut down the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant and decontaminate radiated land so it is inhabitable again..."Our predecessors who bought prosperity to Japan have repeatedly risen up from crises, every time becoming stronger," Noda said at a ceremony at the National Theater attended by the emperor and empress.
click to read more on "Japan marks 1 year since quake, tsunami disaster"


click to read "Snow's March 11th experience"


click to view "Japan's children of the tsunami " 3.11


click to read about Cherry blossoms (sakura)


someone recites
the Lotus Sutra...
spring rain falls

--Issa, 1811



Blessings and Sunday smiles to all

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Saturday, February 25, 2012

Renku Saturday 18


Even after waking
From the dream
I’ll see the colors of irises

--Ume Shukishi (1668-1725)


the opened window
breath of morning

--gillena cox


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Saturday, February 18, 2012

Renku Saturday 17


i used a 2007 photo for today's post; Happy Saturday


variegated leaves -
last minute adjustments
Carnival Saturday

--gillena cox


to tangle or untangle
the willow---
it's up to the wind

--Chiyo-ni (1701-1775)


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